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The Presbytery of New York, 1738 to 1888 SEP 29 1927 THE % Presbytery of New York 1738 TO 1888 BY y S. D. ALEXANDER STATED CLERK NEW YORK ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH AND COMPANY 3S West Twbnty-Third Street SEnibrrsttg ^rcss: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. PREFACE. nr^HIS book can hardly be dignified by the title of a -*" History of the PRESBYTERY OF New York. It is simply an abstract of history. I have dealt in facts de- rived from the records of the Presbytery of New York and the various Presbyteries which sprung from it. Its chief value consists in a statement of the changes which have occurred in the various churches organized, received, or dissolved during the century and a half which has elapsed since the first organization of the Presbytery of New York. No attempt has been made to draw inferences from the facts presented, but they are left to speak for themselves. The Presbyteries which, since the reunion in 1870, have been included in the Presbytery of New York are placed in the order of their organization : the Fourth^ originally an Associate Reformed Presbytery ; the Third, constituted on the principle of "elective affinity;" and the Second, constituted, at the time of the disruption, by the Old- School Synod of New York. In such a compilation as this errors must occur, — errors of the compiler and errors in the original records. Every effort has been made to secure correctness in the dates. Vi TREFACE. Although the histor>' assumes to include the facts up to May, 1888, }-ct there are a few months which have not come under review. The changes which may take place in these months will probably be few and immaterial. These foundations of history are left for a future histo- rian of a Presbytery that is just fifty years older than our General Assembly. New York, October, 1SS7. CONTENTS. Page The Presbytery of New York, i 738-1809 . 3 The Presbytery of New York, 181 0-1870 . 35 The Fourth Presbytery of New York, 182 2-1 8 70 87 The Third Presbytery of New York, 1830-18 70 . lOI The Second Presbytery of New York, 1838-1870 127 The Presbytery of New York, 1870-1888 . 141 APPENDIX. List of Ministers belonging to the Presbytery of New York from its organization in 1738 to its reorganization in 1809 ; together with the date of their ordination, and the bodies by whom they were ordained .... 155 List of Ministers belonging to the Presbytery of New York from its reorganization in 1809 to the reunion in 1870, with the date of their ordination 159 List of Ministers belonging to the Presbytery of New York from 1870 to 1888, with the date of their ordination . 163 Candidates Licensed by the Presbytery of New York up to 1870 167 Licentiates Received from other Presbyteries 1 70 Candidates Licensed by the Presbytery of New York from 1870 to 1888 171 viii CONTENTS. Pace Licentiates Received by the Presbjlery of New York from 1S70 to 1S8S 173 List of Ministers belonging to the Fourth Presbytery of New York from its union with the General Assembly in 1822 to the reunion in 1870 174 Candidates Licensed by the Fourth Presbytery of New York from its organization in 1822 to the reunion in 1870 . 176 Licentiates Received from other bodies 177 List of Ministers belonging to the Third Presbytery of New York from its organization in 1830 to the reunion in 1870 178 Candidates Licensed by the Third Presbytery of New York . 182 List of Ministers belonging to the Second Presbytery of New York from the disruption in 1838 to the reunion in 1870 186 List of Candidates Licensed by the Second Presbytery of New York from 183810 1S70 187 Index 191 THE PRESBYTERY OF NEW YORK. 1738-1809. THE PRESBYTERY OF NEW YORK. 1738-1809. THE Presbytery of New York was born in times of great excitement and religious fervor, when even the best men in the Church were carried beyond the bounds of Christian meekness and charity in their hot controversies, which at last resulted in a division of the Synod of Philadelphia, then the only Synod of the Church. The history of these controversies has been fully and ably written, so that it will not be necessary to enter into this subject, save so far as the Presbytery of New York is connected with them. At a meeting of the Synod of Philadelphia, held on the 24th of May, 1738, the following action was taken : — "The Presbytery of Long Island being reduced so that a quorum cannot statedly meet about business, it is ordered that they be united to the Presbytery of East Jersey, and to be hence- forth known by the name of the Presbytery of New York." The new Presbytery, as thus erected, consisted of the following ministers: JONATHAN DICKINSON, JOHN PlER- SON, Joseph Houston, Nathaniel Hubbell, Ebene- ZER Pemberton, John Nutman, Joseph Webb, Isaac Chalker, Samuel Pumroy, Simon Horton, Joseph Lamb, George Phillips, Sylvanus White, Walter WiLMOT, Silas Leonard, and Aaron Burr. 7 4 THE PRESBYTERY OF NEW YORK. A brief notice of each of these fathers of the Presbytery is certainly becoming in a history of that body. Jonathan Dickinson was the oldest and the most distin- guished member of the new Presbytery. He was a native of Hatfield, I\Iass., and a graduate of Yale College in 1706. In 1708 he came to Elizabethtown, N.J., and labored for some months in the surrounding region. So acceptable were his ministrations that he u'as invited to take charge of the Independent Church in Elizabethtown. He ac- cepted this call, and was ordained on the 29th of Septem- ber, 1709, by the consociatcd ministers of Fairfield, Ct., who came on invitation to perform that service. In 171 Mr. Dickinson joined the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and soon after, his Church put itself under the care of Presbytery. Dickinson may be considered the father of the " Adopting Act," and was the great champion of the truth in opposition to the system of English deism then beginning to spread its pernicious influence in the com- munity. In 1733 the Presbytery of East Jersey was erected, and Dickinson became its acknowledged leader. Afterwards, as a member of the Presbytery of New York, he was prominent in the controversies which shook the Church. Perhaps the crowning work of his life was the part which he took in the establishment of the College of New Jersey, of which he became the first president. He died October 7, 1747. John Pierson, the second on the roll of original mem- bers, was a son of Abraham Pierson, the first president of Yale College. He graduated at Yale in 1711. In 1714 " Mr. John Pierson, clerk," was called from Connecticut to labor in VVoodbridge, N. J., where he was ordained, April 27, 1717, by the Presbytery of Philadelphia. He remained in Woodbridge until 1753, when he took charge of the Church at Mendham, N. J., where he remained ten THE PRESBYTERY OF NEW YORK. 5 years, thence removing to Long Island, where he resided on a farm. Mr. Pierson died at the house of his son-in- law, the Rev. Jacob Green, Aug. 23, 1770. Joseph Houston, the next on the roll, was a native of Ireland, from whence he emigrated to New England. On the 24th of July, 1724, he was taken under the care of the New Castle Presbytery as a probationer; and on the I5tli of October of the same year was ordained and installed by them as pastor of Elk Church, Md. About 1739 or 1740 he was installed pastor of VVallkill Church, N. Y., where he died a few months later. Nathaniel Hubbell was probably an Englishman by birth. He was graduated at Yale 1723, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia before 1727. His field of labor was in the region lying back of Newark, and included the churches of Westfield and Hanover. In 1730 he resigned the charge of Hanover, retaining Westfield until about 1745, when he was dismissed, taking up his resi- dence at Rahway. He afterwards removed to Hunterdon County, N. J., where he died in 1745. Ebenezer Pemberton was a most influential member of Presbytery. He was the son of Ebenezer Pemberton, one of the pastors of Boston, and was graduated at Harvard in 1 72 1. On the 9th of August, 1727, he was ordained in Boston, with the view of becoming pastor of the Presby- terian Church in New York, made vacant by the removal of James Anderson. His work was carried on in New York amid many discouragements, and yet with abun- dant success until 1754, when he accepted a call to the "New Brick Church" in Boston, where he preached until February, 1774. During the war he retired to Andover, where he died September 9, 1779. 6 THE PRESBYTERY OF NEW YORK. Joseph Webb was the son of the Rev. Joseph Webb, of Fairfield, Ct., one of the founders of Yale College. He was graduated at Yale in 1715. On the 22d of October, 17 19, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and settled as pastor at Newark. Hitherto this church had been independent, but by an influx of Scotch and of Huguenots this whole community became infused with the leaven of Presbyterianism, and the action of this church in joining the Synod was one of the first results. Mr. Webb continued pastor of the church till 1736, when the relation was dissolved, owing to a difficulty with Colonel Josiah Ogden, a distinguished member of his church, who had been accused of gathering his harvest on the Lord's day to prevent its destruction by rain.
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